"bootstrappy" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more bootstrappy [comparative], most bootstrappy [superlative]
Etymology: From the idiomatic phrase pull oneself up by one's bootstraps. Head templates: {{en-adj}} bootstrappy (comparative more bootstrappy, superlative most bootstrappy)
  1. (informal) Hard-working, self-reliant, and enterprising. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-bootstrappy-en-adj-ndV1DynE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "2011, Alina Simone, You Must Go and Win: Essays, pages 148–149:",
          "text": "Unwilling to accept the strictures of the Russian Orthodox Church, they demonstrated a very bootstrappy, can-do attitude by simply inventing their own religion from scratch.",
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